Wondering how or if this effects Aliexpress orders? Best I can tell my packages are never touched by the USPS. Orders fly into LAX, picked up by some courier service and then go to some collection center for sorting / consolidation. Finally delivered by car by some Chinese folks. I’m sure it will get shut down soon enough.
Halt all incoming mail, shipments until we devise better fentanyl detection.
Also, two Chinese internet exporters use this exemption to ship billions of dollars of Chinese goods to the USA every year, with almost no taxes involved at all.
China jealously guards its market. In fact, it lies to any manufacturer the Chinese want to steal from, that they will ever have access to it, just to get outsiders to bring manufacturing technology to them.
America doesn’t seem to care about its gigantic consumer market at all - unless the President is named Trump.
“... Letters will not be affected ...” - prolly because mailing one or two ounces of fentanyl in a letter is not practical nor profitable.
However, on Tuesday new rules came into force which closed a loophole that allowed small packages worth $800 (£641) or less to be sent to the US without paying tax or fees.
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The direct route of sending fentanyl from China to the US using small shipments worth less than $800 to avoid all inspections
They’ve already reversed this order.